COPA Chiro is Europe's number one event for chiropractors and practice owners seeking new ideas and opportunities to grow their practice and expand their professional knowledge.

Built on leading industry knowledge and expert insight, the show is peerless in the level of education, advice, and opportunity it provides chiropractic professionals, and presents an essential platform for the future success of chiropractic practices everywhere.

COPA Physio is the principal exhibition for physiotherapists and practice owners looking for the ideas and opportunities to grow their business and advance their professional development.

With education, information, and advice at the heart of the show, COPA Physio is a distinguished platform in the service it provides physiotherapists in helping their professional careers flourish.

COPA Osteo is the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the advancement of professional knowledge and practice growth in the field of osteopathy.

Join the country’s most influential osteopathy professionals and business authorities and benefit from the most innovative therapy education, advice, and business growth ideas from around the globe.

COPA Podiatry is the branch of Rehab World Series dedicated to therapy innovation and practice growth in podiatry.

Packed with leading industry knowledge, professional opinion leaders, and business experts, the show breaks new ground in providing education, knowledge, and professional development opportunities to podiatrists and practice owners.

COPA Prosthetics & Orthotics is the leading event for the most innovative medical, clinical, rehabilitation, technical, educational, and research aspects of prosthetics and orthotics.

The show has been engineered to be the most comprehensive event around and will provide two days of essential information, advice, guidance, and opportunity, and is a platform for the innovation transforming prosthetics and orthotics.

COPA Series is split across these 5 sectors.

When Is The Show?

8th to 9th May 2019, ExCeL London

Doors: Wed - 9:30AM - 5:30PM Thu - 9:30AM - 4:30PM

Could Acupuncture Alleviate Side Effects of Breast Cancer Treatment?

Research has been carried out by the National Cancer Institute (2018) that suggests that acupuncture may reduce treatment-related joint pain, caused by aromatase inhibitors, for breast cancer patients.

Aromatase inhibitors are commonly taken by hormone receptor positive early breast cancer patients, after they’ve had surgery. This is to reduce the risk of the cancer reoccurring, as it relies on estrogenic for tumour growth. Around 50% of patients undergoing this treatment report joint pan or stiffness, with around half of these patients reporting the pain as ‘severe’.

Small studies into whether the side effects of aromatase inhibitors can be relieved by acupuncture have found mixed results. There have also been issues in the generalisability of previous studies, due to the sample used in the experiment.

The current study adopted a multisite trial, studying patients from general oncology practices, as well as patients from university medical centres. All 226 participants, across 11 sites were all taking a third gen aromatase inhibitor and received either: treatment, placebo treatment (sham acupuncture – shallow insertions in non-acupuncture points, using short needles), or not treatment.

Half received treatment, then 25% received placebo treatment and 25% received no treatment, twice a week for six weeks. The women were studies over 12 weeks, following the treatment.

After six weeks, the treatment group reported a significantly reduced level of the worst pain, which was maintained after 12 weeks and reported less overall pain than women in either of the control groups at 24 weeks. However, both control groups did show an improvement in reported pain, the researchers where not sure why this was.